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Hundreds of practitioners, faculty members, staff, students, elected officials and criminal-justice professionals from across the country gathered Tuesday and Wednesday for the National Conference on Campus Sexual Assault and Violence, hosted by UC Berkeley.

Trolling for real-world solutions to support ocean fisheries, the U.S. State Department sponsored a “Fishackathon” at five sites across the country over the June 14-15 weekend. A team from UC Berkeley’s School of Information, working out of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, took home the national grand prize for a mobile app designed to help West African fishermen.

A new five-year, $1.5 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute will help UC Berkeley’s Biology Scholars Program share its successful strategies for supporting and retaining undergraduate biology majors throughout the Berkeley campus, in areas ranging from chemical biology to environmental science.

The Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion is awarding nine graduate students grants for summer research that will take them around the world to explore topics such as the relationships of religion to media and politics, underseen global or early religious communities, and religious doctrine and law.

More than 21,000 crowded the stands of California Memorial Stadium for Saturday’s campuswide commencement. Highlights included a keynote address by U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi and a rousing rap on the senior experience by student Kaila Love. (See additional commencement features here.)

Entering its ninth year, the fund will award a total of $202,264 to 11 partnerships between local community members and UC Berkeley students, faculty and staff. The fund has awarded $1.86 million since 2006.

Music department graduates won’t be marching to the traditional sounds of “Pomp and Circumstance” this year, but the event will be marked by celebratory concert performances on Hertz Hall’s recently installed Noack concert organ.

College broadcasters’ careers, like those of the student-athletes they cover, don’t last forever. In this video, Berkeley seniors Isaac Wolf and Josh Toyofuku look back at their four years at the microphone, and consider the future of KALX sports radio.

Rebecca Peters’ IQ score measured so low in fourth grade that her school did not deem her to be college material. Her parents didn’t buy it, and neither did she. Today she’s a diehard clean-water-access warrior, the winner of three of America’s top 10 scholarships — and UC Berkeley’s top graduating senior
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The international July 26 match at Kabam Field is expected to bring benefits not just for Berkeley sports fans, but for the university’s core educational mission and the neighboring community’s finances.

Cal student-athletes, coaches, friends and supporters gathered in Haas Pavilion Monday to underscore the point that Intercollegiate Athletics at Berkeley is about preparation for success in life, not simply in sports.

Alums of ISSI’s Graduate Fellows Program, committed to both studying and effecting societal change, reunited with Berkeley faculty and friends at a 35th-anniversary celebration and conference at Anna Head Alumnae Hall.

A renowned expert in comparative constitutional law, Choudhry is a professor at New York University School of Law and founder of its Center for Constitutional Transitions. He is set to begin a five-year term on July 1.

UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center, celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2014, is getting some help from the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and 14 student artists from four UC campuses, whose human rights-themed work is being showcased at the museum.

The Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, the first of its kind, will heighten awareness about globally important work being done by Bangladeshis in the United States, and by Americans in Bangladesh.

Pelosi, who has represented San Francisco, California’s 12th District for over 26 years and led House Democrats for over a decade, will address graduating seniors, faculty, administrators and guests at the 2014 campus-wide Commencement.

During and after Cal Day, scores and students and campus visitors posted photos of the fun on social media. To remember the campus’s jumbo open house, or check out what you missed on Saturday, see the #sharecalday website.

A widely reported critical security flaw, called “Heartbleed,” has been discovered that affects not only some campus systems, but also many information systems worldwide. Here are some recommended precautions for computer users.

Currently at San Francisco State, Joseph has held positions at Stanford University, Colgate University and Vanderbilt University in numerous roles within student services. He begins at UC Berkeley on May 1.

In an appearance at International House, the Kentucky senator and likely GOP presidential candidate denounced government surveillance and secrecy, and promised to push for a Church Committee-style congressional panel to “watch the watchers.”

An inaugural exhibit of Chicago street photos by a newly discovered photographer celebrates a comprehensive gift to propel photojournalism studies at the Graduate School of Journalism and across campus..